Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Yes but the things below rarely will work without consistency so you don't have to spend time each week learning new basics, you can concentrate on wrinkles instead.

And how exactly do you know this? I'm not saying it's not true, personally I do believe there is at least some truth to this. but all it is rumored and passed on and a second person then also writes the same thing, likely based on the first rumor and all of a sudden it becomes fact as it's been reported by multiple outlets.

For the most part I'm a Whaley supporter and feel there's a much better chance of replacing him with someone worse rather than better as if it were easy to find front office types, every team in the league would have a solid GM, but they don't. To find a replacement you can go two ways; Hire some recycled available guy, but need to take a long hard look at why is he available, likely a couple years after you hire him you'll find out why. Hire this up and coming guy who everyone is raving about, preferably from a stable organization, but in reality you really have no idea how much success can really be attributed to this rising star, or is it really the guy above him who makes this guy look good. That is pretty much what the Bills have today in Whaley (and Donahoe) who was hired from the Steelers. Having said that I do agree that this team just doesn't have the talent to compete. The position I thought we are sadly lacking at in the game was WR. At this point in time Watkins isn't as good as Marshall and Woods isn't anywhere close in talent to Decker. And the #3 and beyond doesn't get better at either. Whaley has made a number of good moves, trade for Hughes, resigning Rickie and Glenn, and resigning Hughes, team friendly contract for TT, plus many other smaller moves. But he hasn't looked too good on the big moves like the trade for Watkins, and McCoy. Actually with Watkins, I was OK with the trade itself as to giving up a 1st and 4th, if he had played at the level expected, but he hasn't. fFve years from now, it could still end up being a good deal as we saw late last season what he can do, but not at the moment. Trading Kiko for McCoy was OK, but then giving him the big extension wasn't very smart. Agree do wonder how much truth there is to this that it was Terry hire. If so do need to give Whaley more of a pass and hope that Pegula learned from this and the next time, leave it to the experts to make the decision Agree here too, likely Rex expected everyone to buy into his D big time, but didn't happen. I also don't think the defense was as good in 2014 as people claim it to be as can recall at least two late games where we may have won if the defense had stopped the other team but couldn't. They looked great on paper, but not as dominant during the actual games which is where it matters most. IMO if Marrone and Schwarz had stayed, I doubt we'd be a top five defense the following season.

3 what years?? I'd disagree with that. GM's usually get at least two if not three coaching hires before someone figures out the issue may really be the GM. Rarely have I seen GM's fired that quickly. How much of Rex being a Pegula move is true, who knows. But I'd think if there is any truth to it, Pegula didn't get where he is today by being dumb, I'd think he'd learn his lesson and not do that again.

If you look at most teams, GM's are given at least 2 if not 3 coaching hires before you finally decide the problem really is the GM and get rid of him. In Whaley's case it's kind of an unprecedented move when one coach quits, and if the rumors are true that Rx was more of a Pugula hire, would then tend ot give Whaley a pass.

For the most part I'm a Whaley support and have stated , if you're going to get rid of him, what makes you think you'll find someone better to replace him with. If talented front office people were available, every team would have one. Having said that I do feel the biggest issue on this team isn't so much Rex as much as lack of talent. Whaley has made many good moved over the years, more than Nix and Levy did, but he's failed bad on the big moves. The Hughes trade, signing TT to a team friendly deal, resigning Cog, Glenn, and others were good. I don't think trading a 1st and a 4th for Watkins was so bad if Watkins had lived up to his expectations. Trading Kiko for McCoy was good until you resigned him to an extended overpaid deal. The Clay deal wasn't bad except his play has dropped off. Kind of over stating the obvious, but the number of bad deals is starting to become too many to compete. When you compare for example the Jet's WR against Buffalo last night, how could they expect to win. Maybe Whaley would be fine to continue as GM, provided there's someone over seeing and approving his moves as he seems to be too big of a gambler on his own.

So I'll take a different angle here, could it be Roman was fired for needing to waste a TO on the dumb 2nd time called play when they brought EJ in. That time out was huge in that they could have three TO left on last series, would have allowed them to kick deep, stop the Jet's and get he ball maybe at the 50 instead of their own 20 and instead have around one full minute left. So could it be instead it came down from Terry or Whaley, Roman needs to go. Or if Rex did fire Roman over that play call, can't blame him. I'm not one to typically over react, but IMO for that play call he deserved to be fired! While I don't disagree with most of what Sully stated, there were a number on half trues in there to serve his own position, so won't give him that much credit.

Belichick won 11 games with Matt Cassell, not sure he's won 11 games combined since. So yeah. he'd figure out how to win with TT too.

The Jet's are playing the Bills this week. Of course this is a story!

They all say that until you pull up with a truck full of money.

I liked the little take off on the Beatles Abbey Road album, with them "marching" across the street.

Was it deciphered and obsoleted or did he just not have the players that he had initially? The other thing that I think may have effected him in NY, the last two years, Mike Pettine was gone as DC and DT took over as DC. Personally I think DT is pretty clueless, in that respect and glad to see Rob here as think he will basically take Rex's place at running the defense. For Rex's defense to succeed the biggest star needs to be Rex himself, and last year Mario tried to over shadow him and just created a mess.

We've heard of him... No wait, that was Golden Tate!

Of course!! If they had lost those two seasons, then it would have been on Rex, but since they won, then it's not on him So using your argument, if Rex had won last year and team made the playoffs again it would have been because of the team he inherited. So since they lost with a team that wasn't his as you argue, then guess you can't blame him for the loss now either can you. Wasn't his team!

I completely agree with continuity being a good thing. That being said, in all honestly reading your statement, I can't figure out if you're implying that was a good thing or a bad thing to have kept Lewis. Yes they have won, but completely imploded in the playoffs.

I'd hardly call two out of six years in the playoffs a string of failures. If a coach succeeded every year, they'd never get fired i.e. Belichick. Gee maybe if Cleveland hadn't been so hasty to fire him they would have reaped the success themselves.

You have limited slots, can't see using one on a kicker who's only reason he's even been with the Bills is because Carp has a weak leg for kick offs. If Carp were to get hurt, they could either likely sign gay as a street FA or sign some ex kicker who is currently not working.

I use to say a similar about the NBA even tougher yet to make the team, 30 teams and only 12 slots. I use to say it's easier to become president of some country than make the NBA as there are more countries in the world than NBA slots.

Agree, but you can kind of make the argument that depth is strong just not very good as a #2 or #3 WR

I haven't had the streaming service In a few years now, but at that time many of the bells and whistles were not available via streaming, like you couldn't do the 4 window view in full screen mode, so you'd be looking at a postage stamp sized view of game. Seems there were some other things too missing from what I recall. In some case buttons were there, but greyed out, like they had plans for the feature, but not yet working.

For my 2,999 post! Be careful with that word, a couple letters off, could have a much different meaning. Though the shoulder part would be interesting to see!

Jet Blue does have free internet, they call it Wi-Fly (how cute) so if you have ST you could probably log onto your account. If think you could also pay to upgrade to a higher speed. Hope it's a long trip as it wasn't very fast, so may take awhile to connect, but maybe the paid upgrade is good. We happened to be flying right over where my daughter lives and sent her a text to wave. She was shocked as didn't understand how I could be in a plane sending a text.

Yeah but I doubt he expected to be anywhere as bad last year as he was. He also suffered getting benched for the 1st time ever. Really can't see it happening.

Seems with vets, teams try to do the guy a favor, if the person really isn't in their plans cut him ASAP to give him a chance and finding another team. (Unless it's NE)

That's about the only way to "stash" him, put him on IR. Unless he's hurt much worst than we know and is likely to be unavailable for some time, can't see any way around it other than cut him and hope no other team selects him, but typically a 4th rounder who has looked decent in training camp would never make it through waivers. I suppose the Bills could start a rumor that Jones has failed his 3rd drug test since camp started. Maybe that would keep other teams away.